An exploration of the evolution of our workflow as the Modern Tribe team has grown.

1. A Dev Workflow
CODING TOGETHER
Peter Chester
@peterchester // tri.be

5. THE
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CODE AWESOM
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6. Enough about me.

7. Sustainable
collaborative
SYNERGY

8. Sustainable
collaborative
coding practices

9. Deploy.

10. Deployments should be
BORING(Save your energy for the afterparty!)

11. How did we get here?

12. the Solo Developer

13. development
strategy
account management
project management
quality assurance
support
sales
design
finance
operations

14. Benefits of the Bachelor
• Control
• Low Overhead (and High Profits)
• Competitive
• Efficient

15. the Price of Freedom
• Stressful & Exhausting
• Scatterbrain Syndrome
• Quality Assurance
• It’s lonely.

16. I had a simple workflow.

17. Codinglikeit’s
Customer’s need is fulfilled
Review with customer
Deploy code (FTP)
Test locally
Write code
Translate to scope
Customer states a need
1999

18. What’s missing from the
solo workflow?
Customer’s need is fulfilled
Review with customer
Deploy code (FTP)
Test locally
Write code
Translate to scope
Customer states a need

19. • Source Control
• Deployment Process
• Dev Site
What’s missing from the
solo workflow?
Customer’s need is fulfilled
Review with customer
Deploy code (FTP)
Test locally
Write code
Translate to scope
Customer states a need

20. Youth is bad for your health.

21. • Late nights
• Hairy releases
• Tiny fonts
• Giant functions
• A general disdain for wellness
Youth is bad for your health.

22. Then there was
hulu

23. Then there was
a baby

24. This is not
sustainable!

25. Maybe I need a team.

26. Teams are Awesome!

27. • Share the load
• Inspire & Educate
• Smarter than me
• Income stability
Teams are Awesome!

28. Teams are Expensive!

29. • Communication
• Efficiency
• Scale
Teams are Expensive!

30. Deploy code
Customer’s need is fulfilledCustomer’s need is fulfilled
Review with customerReview with customer
Deploy code
Test locally
Write code
Translate to scopeTranslate to scope
Customer states a needCustomer states a needSmallteam
workflow
Developer

31. Deploy code
Customer’s need is fulfilledCustomer’s need is fulfilled
Review with customerReview with customer
Deploy code
Test locally
Write code
Translate to scopeTranslate to scope
Customer states a needCustomer states a needSmallteam
workflow Team Lead
Developer

32. Deploy code
Customer’s need is fulfilled
Review with customer
Test locally
Write code
Translate to scope
Customer states a needSmallteam
workflow
Developer

33. Deploy code
Test locally
Write code
QA
Developer
Smallteam
workflow
Test on dev server
Push to origin/develop
Test locally
Write code

34. Deploy code
Test locally
Write code
QA
Developer
Smallteam
workflow
Test on dev server
Push to origin/develop
Test locally
Write code
Version
Control
Dev
Server
Deployment
Process

35. Deploy code
Test on dev server
Push to origin/develop
Test locally
Write code
What’s missing from the
small team workflow?

36. Deploy code
Test on dev server
Push to origin/develop
Test locally
Write code
• Asynchronous production
• Code quality
• Scalability
What’s missing from the
small team workflow?

37. A better workflow

38. BIGteam
workflow CI Server
Developer
QA
Dev #2
Post-release smoke test
Tag Pull Request “merge”
Code review
Run automated tests
Create Pull Request
Push to Origin
Write code
Create feature branch
Deploy!
Pre-release smoke test
Run automated tests
Delete feature branch
Merge
Test feature branch

39. Into the Sausage Factory

40. Conscious Coding

41. Code unto others
as you would have them
code unto you.

42. Code for
your future self

43. Code for
non-coders

44. Code for
designers

45. Code for
your dad

46. Code for is for
people

47. Poem to a PC
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48. Architecture

49. • Files
• Functions
• Classes
• Variables
Nomenclature
QUACK!

51. Short summary
Clearly named Class
Clearly named variables
Succinct documentation
Unambiguous function titles

52. • WP-CLI
• ACF or CMB2
• SASS or LESS
• Grunt or Gulp
• …
Leverage Libraries

53. TDDTest Driven Development

54. Version Control

55. Centralized Workflow
MASTER

56. Feature Branch Workflow
FEATURE
MASTER

57. Gitflow Workflow
THANK YOU TO VINCENT DRIESSEN AND ATLASSIAN
HOT FIX RELEASE
FEATURE
DEVELOP
MASTER

58. Read more.
http://m.tri.be/gitworkflow

59. • Central (Redmine)
• Jira
• Asana
• Trac
Use a Ticketing System

60. • PHPLint
• Unit Testing
• Integration Testing
• API Integrations & Automation
• Deployments
Continuous Integration

61. • Consistency
• Quality
• Learning
Code Reviews

62. Deployment System

63. Simple git cron
http://m.tri.be/securityscript

64. Remote Deployment Tool
Capistrano or Rocketeer

65. Continuous Integration Deployment
Snap CI, Circle CI, Codeship

66. Dev Sites

67. the Three Servers

68. the Three Servers
Production
Staging
Dev
/SERVERS/PRODUCTION
/SERVERS/STAGING
/SERVERS/DEV

69. Branch based testing sites

70. Basic branch testing

71. Production
Dev
FEATURES/ONE
SERVER/PRODUCTION
Production Production
Dev
FEATURES/TWO

72. Branch testing elaborated

73. Production
Dev
Production Production
HOT FIX RELEASE
FEATURE
DEVELOP
MASTER
Dev
Dev

74. Pick-n-pull

75. Pick-n-pull

76. Pantheon’s Multidev

77. Pantheon’s Multidev

78. Quality Assurance

79. Ticket Testing

80. Smoke Testing

81. Deploy.

82. Deploy.

83. Q&A
Peter Chester
@peterchester // tri.be